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THE Ifrltl'H.
BY JAMES W. RILEY.
O, the drum!
There s iobm
Intonation in thy
Monotony of utterance that strikes th • \im dumb,
A* we hear
Through Ihe dear
And unclouded atn .^phere,
Thy rumbling palpitations roll in up t. the ear!
There’s a part
Of the art
Of thiue luusuMhrolddng heart.
That Ihrilla a something in us lhat awakens with n
start,
And, the rlivrue
Wit a the chime
And exact it giL of lime,
Goes marching on to glory to ttiv iuelod\ -
And the gued
Of the breast
That thy rolling robs of r s
la a patriotic spirit as a Continental dn-s*- 1
And be looms
From the glooms
Of a century of tom. s.
And the blood he spilled a; Lxiii„ 1 i,
beauty blooms.
And fclaeye*
Wear the guise
Of a nature pure and
And the lore of them is lifted t -i in the
skies,
That is bright
Red and whit*.
With r bin • of starry light,
As it laughs In silken ripplee to tLe breeds day and
night.
There are deep
Hushes creep
O’er the pulses a.® flier lean,
And the murmur fainter growing, oil the mlcikc
falls asleep,
While the prkyar
Rung
Will** (tie sea and earti sad air
A m heritage to Freedom’s sons ami dnughten every
where.
Then with sound
As profound
As the thundering* resound,
Come thy wild reverberati si 1 th;- that sb <s
tiie ground,
And a cry,
Flung on high
Like the ling it flutters by,
Wings rapturously upward till it nestles in toe sky,
O, the drum!
There is some
Intonation in thy giutn
Monotony of uttera.jrr' -vat suites thespiut dumb.
And we bear
Through the clear
And unclouded atmosphere
Thy rumbling palpitations roll iu epoti the car 1
the acrusiTL MW.
Ilw l*i- <>-,hko> 3mm tint-’ ii lilt t.l Kim.
flSkmi Peck’s Milwaukee Bnn.]
A few weeks ago u man registered at
an Oshkosh hotel, and wan assign* and a
room, and evetyliody notic 'd that lie was
a most moimtful looking man. He never
said a word, bnt tliefe was that alumt his
face, and his actions lhat showed he was
lalxaing under some nr at sorrow, lie
land his supper taken to liis room uid
tits waiter said the man never sjsik' . aid
wSßtoued to be the saddest looking man
he ever saw. The guests all talked the
matter over, and they decided that the
man was going to commit suicide. A
traveling man who had a room next di m
to the solemn man, and who had pr
vioosly ooeupii and adjoining rooms in dif
ferent hotels to thr. e m. n who had com
mitted suicide, felt that hew. .about to .
experience a fourth shock of the suite j
kind, and lie lay in his lied all is 1
never slept a wink, la li via: that tin
next moment he should hear arc. , r
shot or the death struggle of his in igli
bor, from jioison.
He never heard a sound, all night, i
when he got up in the morning he |.„d ,
the clerk that lie was sur the man wa
dead. They passed the ro.ni and !!■■:. n .
hut .could hear no noise, and it w ■ de
cided to look over the trams m to i
the man was dead. It is not, a p|oi
tiling to look over a transom int- . i ;
room, not knowing whether \ .in . \
will fall on a corpse or a live ma i
revolver pointed at yon, so • •
seemed to yearn to he the first 1
the stepladder. Fi’-nlh it v.i- ,i ei .1
to throw a cat over the transom, ,
bed, and if they did not h. , . y .
it would lie certain that the m , ,
dead, and they could go on with tin
funeral. A eat was procured, and I
porter, who knew just where tli 1, 1 t
located, was detailed to toss the cat over.
He went up the ladder a few ; i .
not enough to look over, liocanse in- \ !
not prepared to look suddn ;v up.-. ,
corpse, and taking the cat in both ;
hands, by the legs, he gently to cd li r,
or him, as the case might la-, over th,
transom on the bed occupied bv
mournful-looking man. Tli e •
heard to fall with a dnll thud, the was
a sound as of scratching a al rq.pi:
heavy form was heard to strike the tin ~
the cat “purmeoud" and “spit,' ~ I
the half dozen people on in the h il
lookeil at each other wonderingly, win a
suddenly the door opened and the tun I
dest man that ever was seen in Odd
came out in the hall in hi- night shirt, 1
his arm and face bleeding on to th w hit,
night shirt. He had the eat bv the hind
legs with one hand and a rcvolv i in the
other, and as he struck at th a—mil led
multitude right and left with tic .-at.
there was the worst getting down
that ever was, and. the eat w s tin nat
the last person who went down stair-,
and the man returned to lii . room.
He dressed himself, want down to t!
office and paid his bill.; . and took to first
train south, never liavi ie -pok.-u a wool 1
while in Oshkosh, and the p op! , . to
this day wondering wlo tlai he w a
prohibition speaker, a trnveli ; m.-n for :
a corset factory, or an agent for a d< f
and dumb asylum. The (i .v human
who was so iiervou for f< ar his ■
was going to commit suicide, w i-la s lu
had, the landlord f ars that lie In, ,i;;
pleased a guest wbomiviit lev- remained i
longer, and the porter wl threw the
cat, says that it is the last time he w ill
ever try to fiud a corps by the aid of a
cat.
The Claimant. — Air. Anthony Bid
dniph visited the Tie!,! claimant a
few days ago at Ports- . , .vict prison
for the first time sine- tii- i-o.ivicl s re
moval from Dartmoor. Th claimant has
lost considerably in w. i pit. a I ha- aged
very much. He appi aiv.i t- perfectly
resigned to liis position, 1 it is looking
forward with hope to the Christmas of
1884, when he exp-eta to be liberated on
a ticket of leave
Dr. Holmes's Sion.—“The Ancient !
Order of the Sons and Daughters tr
Brothers and Sisters of Moses of the
District and ot the World” is the name
of a fraternity of colored people in Wash
ington. “Of the District and of the
World” recalls the hot-1 sign Dr. Holmes
saw in Paris in his youth: “Hotel of the
fJnivenw and of the United States,”
®| )t ©ayette.
VOL. X.
UUIYINU OVER TORPEDOES.
I.wis E. Dawson, a Philadelphia po
j lineman, claims the honor of having
j taken Gen, McClellan safely through, or
, rather over, one of the greatest, dangers
!1 bin life, “it was the time the rebels
! evacuated Yorktown," said the police
man, “More the seven days' light iu the
| Peninsula. I was then driving MeO! 1
! lan's private ambulance, a sort oi : .
! mantown wagon, that he had had fittest
1 up for his own use. Tt would carry four
j persons comfortably, and 1 had a team
of four splendid horses to draw it. Well,
| Hie rebels skipped out of Yorkt own olio
' Saturday night, but before they went
j they filled all the roads in and around
i the town with torpedoes—buried ’em
j under a thiu scum of earth, you know,
) so that you couldn't see the blamed
I things till you stepped on ’em, and tliei*
I after that you never saw anything else.
! The Sunday after the evacuation was a
! beautiful day, but that night it rained as
j it just knew how to rain down on the
j PeuiuHula, and the mud—well, it knew
: 1 10 wTo make mud, too. It was about a
foot deep, I reckon, when 1 started on
I Monday morning from Mc.ClUanV head-
I quartern, tour miles out, to drive to
York town.
“There were four officers in the
; unbalance—Gen. MoCl lion, Col. Col
i burn, his chief of stuff; Gen. Franklin,
iuid Gen. Fitz John Porter. I t was still
1 mining, and the ambulance curtains were
closed. We got along all right till we
i came to the entrance to the Yorktown
. fortifications, and there, right in the nar
i lowest part of the way, was an amnium
j tiou wagon, broken down in the mud,
and lienidc it was a stick planted in the
mud, with a little red flag hanging from
it. I knew what it was ass >on ns I saw
| it; the rain had washed tin- dirt <*ff one of
them bloody torjK'doe.s, and the soldiers
had found it and marked it; you bet they
wasn’t going to dig it up without positive
orders.
“Well, I stopped my team and Gen.
McClellan stuck his head through the
curtains and looked about him. There
were some soldiers standing around, and
among them was a Lieutenant.
“ ‘Don’t let our men take up any of
diese torpedoes. Make tin pn- ners <k
it.’
“Then lie 1 lvuiked at the wagon, and
risked m ;
“ Do you think yofi can get past?'
•*‘Yes,’l said. T gn -s 1 can, if 1
straddle that torpedo/
*■ ’Well,’ sail he, ‘go ahead. J expect
we'll all be blown to thumh-r together.’
Thost! were the very words hr? used. So
I tlii - w my long whip down between the
.•sto k. J) Ulem apart far a ;. ■
Im- 1 , and drove ahead, and we got into
Yorktown without touching the t n
"And what did Mc< M ]]. .. say then?’
“He never said a word. When we got
into Yorktown he. left tli ambulance and
• nt into a li-'iisc, nnd pr**- atlv he nt
an ord rly out to tell me to go back to
h uhj.iartt rs. I had no sooner reached
there than I received orders to turn
ar innl, return to Yorktown, and follow
n iinny, so I had to drive over that
! ! on- and torpedo three times. I got kinder
u . and to it at host and won ready to bet
that 1 could do it every tune."
A Phiitelarv Myslw)*
The strangest phenomena in connec
tion with WednesdayM transit is tlmt re*
ported by Prof. Lsuigloy, observing at
Pittsburg. When about one-half of the
planet was upon the min’s face a point of
light was svoii near the rim of Venus,
outside the sun. No direct ray of light
could reach that point, and the Pr<ifcssoi
expressly says that the phenomenon was
not due to irradiation, nor to any iu.si in
mental cause. The explanation and i;.-
terpretation of this phenomenon is an en
tirely new problem for astronomers.
There can bo no doubt of the reality of
the mystery, for the report of it is ovrr
Prof. signature, and he is
known as a careful as well as competent
observer. His assistants, when their at
tention \vti called to it, saw the same
sldning point, in no symmetrical relation
to tin* chord uniting the “horns of the
polar limb, and umnistakaVdy on o e :-ide
of the line drawn tlirough the centre oT
tlie sun and Von us. Tie spectroscopic
observations showed some new and un
known lines, besides unmistakably those
of watery vapor. It is noteworthy iiait
no observer report;; having scfai a satel
lite of Venus. Several skilfull observers
have heretofore reported that such a body
existed, but the observations of Wednes
day must V>e taken to show that the
earlier ohservi*i*s were in error; that is,
ph j. Avery satisfuet iv f< tuie 1 be
re] e ts is that so few oi*, rver: v..
troubled by the “black drop. ’’ l :
the contacts were geometrical, a fact
lii; lily conducive to exactness. Ihe
( . ’’man observers at Haitford,
quoted as saying affirmatively, that th*
were no indications of an ;itnK>sp]u r■.
The point ls worth noting, chiefly beean ;.
oi its incoiLsiatency with the ace ]>t and
hi ! lhat VemtH Ims an atmosphere, j <1
wl i-h must l>e takeu to be rather nn ;
■irmly established than weakened by the
observations of Wednesday. On the
’■•h ie. this transit, was much more * *-
<< • ,fufly oV>scr\ f ed than the last, andmo 'e
asi 1 i be learned from it.
Texas claims a goose sixty-five years
old. The Haiti more Day wants to know
uherc that gooso was during the war,
SUMMERVILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH M. 188:5.
( bulitUi J m n.
Dr. Myron I*.Halstead, at the winter
mooting, in Northampton, of the Mas-a* |
chuscttN Hoard ■p.oko of Indian corn, j
Ihe yield of which the present season !
will approach wry mar two billion j
bushels, raised chiefly in six States, and i
<ni an area thirteen times ns large as i
Massachusetts, which produced two mil
lion busin g iui.i wa* u*e first iu tlw '
World to bo planii ii with corn by civil
ir.ed man. C ’ i is ot a plasti.* nature
and can adapt itself to widely different j
influences. The nmny sorts now gviurn
was probably developed from >i single i
source and from a variety much ink rioi |
to oui’ lu-st kinds now. Com is divided j
into flint and dent varieti a, field or gai I
den, or swa et, p p and bu-*kcovered,
the lattei believed by many tu lepreseni i
- tlie "rigiind habit <*f growtli. From four I
to forty rows uro found iu an ear, al- j
ways an even number. Varieties are '
cultivated that reach a height of only j
two feet, while others rear their tops so j
that a man on horseback can scarcely ;
reach them. The Icy .A . are many |
shaped and nmny colored, mid the grain j
varies in weight from fifty-six to sixty- j
four pounds per bushel. The kernel is :
made up ot the chit or embryo, and
starch and oil for feeding it during its :
early growth. Like most of all other
plants it has its roots, shun and leaves, ,
The value of the entir crop of tin
United States is not less than !?even hun
dred million dollars’ worth for each i
the hundred days oi' its growlh, though ,
as com grows but little during cold '
spells, th" money value is increased I
most rapidly during the hottest day.- ,
just .-succeeding showers, vvlieu tlieiv j
must at times he twenty or more mil- j
lions of dollar*’ worth grown in a single ,
twenty-four hours. Tlie \ual charac
ter of the plant was described with its
male hi ■ .sums on the spindle and the
found 1 * i' ‘,;i:i.n on the ; ar, giving us the
power to eross*hi\ cd and mala* new vari
eties by careful selection and manipnla- j
tiou. Much can he done L increase the j
aV 1 rage yield of the country by selection
of seed and growing K‘*ed especially for
planting. A variety with tl • habit of t
producing one fine ear is better than oiu
that may produce several small ears.
The cob*!, „i! 1 he small, the husk soft. •
Ik*idy g.i’owth i also an important char- j
avteriatie. The pMson \vlu is fortunate !
enough to virigiimtc a mnv variety of i
marked superiority to any now existing; j
i will b 'l.i <*l amoiig tin- hen of actors of ;
tlie. race. Amn ■>.is the peculiar home j
of the corn plant; Lug.land would gladly j
: give, a thousand fortunes could she sue- i
cessfulh •- • ' tiii '.“ii, which is every I
inch a king.
the ih-Nnu: oyster.
I At the New York Mien*scoj)ical Society :
Secretm-y of tlie New dermy Stab- Mi* ■
. Copical t-■ (ety, read e. p!ip<T <ii ! ’
‘Natural History of tl >(h ! r/’ At:
! speaking of the great systems in phy.G !
sor took up the ingestion, respiration run] ;
! circulation of the oyst- r, which lie ii)us -
frated with the led)) of the blackhoaid j
and diagrams. In regard fo th* inges
; live system, he> showed the course which j
. the water took in conv* v ingfood to the ,
; mouth of the oyster, and described the j
I action of the lips of tho oyster in eJimi- |
• natiiig the food fipnt the water.
The |e-i'i n the F,toniu , li was tie n
shown with the involuted iute.stines, and i
where tho fiw.cea were discharged at a
■ f'pot wliero the effete water that had
i been takmi to the mouth, returned in 21
! stream, thus carrying tin* fmeal refuse :
! out of the shells. Further on lie showed .
the peculiar internal structure of the in
i testines, by which the great surface was !
' made available for the absorption of food
; into the general system.
In regard to the respiration, he showed *
: how the water entered tin* gills, and by j
a lories of innumerable millions of little .
| lashes in action, like oar.;, carry the water ;
through tie* minutest part of the gills,
eliminating the. oxygen from the con* !
1 laired air. Iu respect to the circulation
| lie showed the heart in pulsation, com
posed of tlie ventricle and auricle, the
latter receiving the aerated blood from
the gills, giving the name to the ventricle,
which by th two aortas dislnhuh-d the
1 blood through tie* entire surface of th**
animal.
1 1 1 - ~poke <{ the oyster as having some
little capacity for ediicatiou (tlie l*rofcs
or i Superiuti udoiif of Public Instruc
tion ie Mnnioiitli (’ounty, N. J.,) in that
ina dngnilrir way it can fidjn-t it * If to ■
man; 11* w environinents, and then went j
on to d< rib-the building up the oys
t**r •* lion ■ —its shells. He told how the
sb.ojb w'oL'f* fanned and how the ago. of
i an ovster can be told by the shiiots or
iavej -of tin sheila, by the hinge lines |
and by the position of the abductor
muscle.
The ProlV.sf.or then described tlie com
panions of th** oy-ter and their habits,
detailing their efforts in gathering food ,
for the mollusc, and also the enemies of ,
the ovster, such as the drum lislj, that ;
grinds them up, d< stroying millionH of
tla ai i** a night; of tlie drill, that bores
a hole through the shell and then sucks
! out th -and body, unless the oyster !
rebe ls and defeats the attack by plugging
|up the hob Tlw - n-stai and the oncii I
| were added to flic list of enemies, each
one’s operations begin minutely described. ,
! That seems to me very great and
i nob!- -that power of 1 .'peeting leul
-1 ing which ho do .s J.*C A. o <,y undcr
fttaud.—Georye tiliot.
HOM TO SV( V) \ PENSION.
A Lillie Vdvli’i l <ivrn i!i- < .• -imici
el INuCfii*.
Pension Uomno*• i-. r Ibofl s ha .
written n 1 tter to a • nlb*m • n *f New
York City, who \.i . whether
fhero wii.s any real it : v for mjdy*
ing pension attovne* ~and t..• alii. I
statement of the mill G u* and by dis*
hone; t altorneys t.. s. ■' •s< 'u rs;
In reply the Conn. . u i.ud that sec
tion -1,718 of tin* H . . and Sfafutt a pro*
vides that the (’■ 1 • •.:. • ..r< • Pei ..ions,
on apjdiefthon being ■ unleto him in per
son or by lctteJ’ by any claimant or np*
1 plieant for p-nsnw. Len.-tv. Imd or
other allowance required by law to ho
adjusted or p and by eIN : .ion Ofli**e,
I shuil to h , IT eof nil
expenso, all such ) '■ and instructioua
and forms a ? may 1, o r in estah
i* It ing and obl. .. .. _.,d elaim. 4
I When the elain', \ jm K lUh dnp and
I executed, is filed to v . -jj*t is aeknovvl
| islg. and, tli • niunl** .* * I It* l idnim given
and the claimant n !;:i and that tho same
j will ho taken up in its order; at the tine
j time a letter is he.w : ie>l containing full
I and complete ii st m . .
Necessarily eonsd* and lay oeurs
| between the tim ■of f'di ihe elaim and
I its being taken • 1 i: ord* r, which
I delay the elaimani *1 i* <*mploy
in procuring th 1 1 ■ n\ evidence.
When the O i l i . t Meh 1 and < > taken
I up, if the evidem * i ;dl in and s'lffieiout,
| lint elaim is setlit and a- < 11. .
Otherwise elaim--no .1 upon for
| the particular kind **. * id. iu*e w pur. and,
and the circular e ills i * a worded that
they cannot b 1 ii ii -i l * (• ;•] :■ f oil by any
1 one. The evi ]e e. i\.. rd i .obtained
I by the office dii\ ct, as is abo th 1: , die.d
1 examination by the . <li .and b.iards iu
The CoJi i.iis ::. i !! pjaneipal
[ violationscoi'si ;! i. ! • llecti n-, s: h r
; .some guise or up<n : me ya'*, h. xi ov an
! other, of more than the h- nllowtd by
! law; tlie enforced e. ii <*l.'on of so-nilled
(X pens'- fecr or pp , 1 * -1 :1 i1?. . in :• 1
of lice fol’ meVneat ■. n ..oi ions or
ofhr evideuee by C. O. I>.
packages; the e< h. v mu of < ■ in nd
vmice and aband- mu !of chn’m a soon
as 100 is received; ah. .rb holding
out iiulucemont. :>*.{ wavniiV Iby law,
bv which lion h ; : r , 1. dto pre
fer baseless claim;, tho only advantage
in such eases bein ' ;h which accrued
to the agent, wU<> g . u fee.
Loss of Life nt Sen.
From tho annual >\ |H.ri m th -Hupei
visiiif'; luspootoivGci' r,d of Steam Ves
sels, Mr. Dumond, there is obtained
much iptero&tu'ig i*vd ii true, live in for
ination regarding the I'l.-s of litv* aim
jiropori v through' accident, to that class
of cai'J‘i< rs. During the fiscal year tlie
total nnmher of reeideiik- resulting in
less of life was; From (lireefc eoliisions,
If*; expi* *:-.;■•• ?• ; liivs, 7; “snaps,
wrecks and • • i ig,” 3, making a total
of 41. Tie number of lives lost was:
By • xpl ■ M r,fl; h; fh . 00; by collia
i-Uirt, f, ie. . '*h ... i drowing, -if’*; by
(. Tho
total nuiifliiT of u r ! . enrrifd during
•454,070,447, showing that the hos of life
wa only 1 to . •*/ 1,727,172 persons
carried.' D m year 185 J, tho year
previoii loth*. teii.ieut of tin* wteaiu
ilo.'ifc I'.v.s, of vvhie!, those now in force
are eodilie.iti--n- dd,000,000 passengers
wen; oaiTt 1 e .0 700 liv< a lost, le ing 1
lip' in every fb>,7!4 pas .engew. carried.
These figure ere cited j>t proof of the
e\<*ell*nce. ot tlie pr* -.i*iil system ot in
ftl marked improve sent since 185.1 is, of
course, not to h denied, but liny are
very far from pv nmg tluit. th sy tern is
as perfect or the officers engaged under
it. juh i fiicje'it and J.iitbfal as they sliould
be.
A Fore?W;e r Woman.
Tin*, i*■ i . -ill/.; <i: iii -of some
women wa ivoudi rthili illii trated i the
Court of lielierni S* . •■ions of New York
City the other day. Albert Arthur was
bed Ije.: ith eha.y -if stfempting to
kill his v*.ii* ;r wIL-, Nellie. Arthur, a va
' D ■in *. T ■ .1 in-* was that he,
p. a jd i L v hah i! -y. a Hacked her in a
empioved, her eleven times,
bin- lay at Ihe ph ifc of death for weeks,
l ot when sue 'pu.l-ii tie* incpilsil it was
e.iiiai lii ; I sor; i'.- ii her eniel
* Ihng to te*-;t 1 i’v
ah , him. Imree. Ie - trial. tlm. ai
desee of other witness* being ..uiiicient,
h) 1*■ went iretju* dly to the prisoners’
Ie v, and sent him luncheon at recess.
AjtLev was *onvi**ted, however, Olid t!):
jji’.i/ability is that he will spend hoiho
1 years .dfjde pi*!son.
ITiclaimcd Money.
Mr. Ik* ton, author of “ Unclaimed
Money,” lias startled Londoners by an
nouncing that; the m u Palace ox Justice
lifts I) 1 •! mainly rabed with the. surplus
interest of suitors’ money, the Courts of
Justi*- Building iwt, giving power
t*> *.ij>ply £1 ,i.'h ( >,()oo of tin* Surpluh
bdeivst bund f}• this priqxse. Mr.
pr-.s-!*.!] asserts lied C75,1X10,000 are in
t!• ■ < .'.lift,.'* y. ' ' : m em.! roi or
■•'•miifs hcii’e dies4s. A Immlred veal’s
• * \V;(yr.rnn.ii cal‘2.:sß.7;!<*count.
Tli is einploymmit o; tlm money in build
ing- the coiiris need not alarm tliennmer
ous fftmilics in this country who claim
tie s ■ funds, inasmuch jw there is an
nude-miu jding that the Goverrmient will
jiiuk good all and e money thus appro
ori-ded to all cli*.i.n; whicli shall bo sub
staid luted,
f'i has I icon * Hi.sd -.1 tied: alx/it one
himdri-fi thonxiuid mill s of orKlerpi ouml
ejoimbc; :■> i ie -ihe iim* '.-he 10 of I veil *
tucky.
HE WOULD GO TO SEA.
Tlir Itoiuniiee l I’iiiiihiiiuUdi* Puitlnuc’* 1
ILn Immml
Comniaudt'V (lorringe, of United |
States Navy, is descended from an an- 1
ci. nt Svvedi h family mimed Goriugs. |
liis father went to the llarhadoes iinnie- j
diatelv after taking his degree nt Oxiord, I
mid tln iv ,‘U‘ttled down m; a elergymnn
of tin 1 Church of England. He mnrrieil !
a daughter of a fellow clergyman ; and it I
was in this charming sea-home that tho
two young people r< nvi'd their five chil
dren. They had everything heart could
wish for- position, means, health and
prosperity. The worst troubles they laid
to encounter were vicarious-- for they suf
fered only through their parishioners*
and their days of joy grew to months and
years, and still the sun shone.
The first jar came when tlie second hoy,
Harry, walked into his father’s study one
day and announced that he could not
stand school-going, hut must he a sailor,
adding with the honesty that has iu v 1
left him :
* I tell you, papa, because ii you do
not let me go, I will run away.”
Air. (lorring.■ thought it over, and
m vl morning had a talk with the hoy
out of which grew the following treaty :
11* 1 was to > urn to ‘bool and stay one
year, which won id In i ig him to the age
of fourteen ; It.* u, if he still felt liis hap
piness lay in a sea life, he was to he
shipped with a friend of his father’s to
learn liis chosen profession. The subject
was then dropped, mid matters went on
> quietly that Mr. Gorringe forgot all
ahoiil. it. Not so the hoy; oil the last
du\ of the year of probation, he went to
liis father and quietly Haiti :
“The yearns up, papa. '
N\ hat year, my hoy V”
•My year of waiting and now T
want to go to sea.”
Poor gentleman He went in dismay
t.l his wife —as the wisest man will do
when family puzzles arise—and it was
decided iu solemn conclave to send the
hoy a sailoriug under a captain who
would disgust him with sen-life once and
forever. A vessel was in from England,
commanded by an old commercial friend
of the pastor ; and to him ho unfolded
ease. 11* si lipped liis son as cabin
boy; and after putting a sum of money
and a kit of “store-clothes” in the cap
tain’s charge, hade adieu to him and
went home heavy-hearted.
Captain Gorringe says his first taste of
sea-life came as lie hung over tho rail,
with a lump in liis throat, and looked
and looked nt liis Inane. As ho gazed at
it through a haze of hairs that twisted
and distorted its outlines into all sorts of
fantastic shapes, a rough hand took bin
by the ear, and u rough foot, kicked him
forward with an oath-garnished order to
■ 1 aloft, *>r else take a taste of rope’s end.
After this lie did see sea-life in its most
trying phases, hut reached England uu
/ 'isnmyed, and was there arrested by his
uncle, and shut up until a letter from tlie
West Indies assured him that his nephew
Inid not run away, and that the whole
fi.oc.jal system of ihe Barbadoes liad not
gone to wreck, even though its pastor’s
.hi wjis shipped as a sailor before the
mast 011 a merchantman.
By the time this letter came the first
ship had sailed; but the plucky hoy en
listed on another and started for India.
(oiniccficiii Valley Sandstone.
Mr. Elias Nason reports, iu a Boston
gaper, that some very fine specimens of
tracks have lately been uncovered ill the
I' uncus quarry at; Turner's Falls, Mass.
One of the slabs has on it a series of
15-inoh tracks (three toed), tho stride
measuring five feet. Mr. Nason wus per
mitted to take with him several beautiful
specimens, one of which exhibits tlie
delicate tracery ot the feet of an insect
escaping over the soft mud; another ex
hibits the ripples of the wave, another
the drops of ra; , and others have well
defined impriniu of the tracks of birds.
lle also saw lim impressions of se/eral
kinds of ferns and grasses. Mr. Stough
ton, who is working this geological mine,
considers some of the larges! slabs to he
worth from #SOO to $1,000; but the cost
of excavating them is heavy.
This whole ’ pion is supposed to have,
been originally covered by the sea. As
die waves receded, birds and quadrupeds
■vho.se species an extinct left the. impm;-
ioriM of their feet upon the mud, which,
hardening into stone, has held them
through the. ages for the examination of
the scientists of the present day. Com
pared with these tracks us to age, the
~.. 1 .f !•’ Lot. • : * y.-W*r
h‘.y*
'J.’ifis Kisf of ( Ilkomakgaiune.—ln the
census returns of 1870 oleomargarine
oo' .s not appear. According to a cenbus
bulletin ju-t issued tla* amount made in
the United States in 1880 reached a value
(,{’ l- a rly seven million dollars. This in
dicates lively progress of the infant in
dustry during tlie past decade in spite of
the legishitiv : and other obstacles thrown
in its way. Tlie census of 1800 will
doubtles how a far greater advance of
the now product 11 the zealous competi
tion with its old-fashioned rivak
A ftw!-.JimVVuukl.-—A. roulette
wheel in u Cincinnati gambling room was
stolen, and the thieves turned out to he
rivji l gamblers, who desired to have one
made just like it. They testified in court
that it v. as jx new invention, containing
a spring by the means of which its vic
tim- could be robbed at will, the dealer
being .able to make the ball stop oil
whatever number lie pleased.
NO. 8.
STORY OF “RIF VAN WINKLE.*’
There - ins to be good reason for be
lt. ving that tho \ory of “Hip Van
\\ inkle” existed in similar form long bo*
foo'. V\s doe ion Irving gave it to the
A merit ,111 public, -b . Griffis, in his
work entitled “The Mikado’s Empire,”
bays: “ l'lie story (oi Chinese origin) is,
as told by Jap - e si wy-tollers, as fol
,v ; b 1 \a ’ a pious xvood-eutter,
who dwelt at the haste > f the majestic and
ludy mountaiii Tendui, tho most glorious
p< ■: ! v of tlie N1 ml in range in China.
Though ho thought himself familiar with
.the paths. Ii- foi some reason one day
lest his way, and wandered about, having,
fib ex y iiii him. He did not care,
however, be. a use Tie beauty of the land
scape, the flower t and the sky seemed to
p • bis senses, and he gave himself
up to th ee 1 iay of the hour, enjoying
all the pleasant emotions of holy con
templation. All at oneo he heard a
ei:ed A y ii nd, a l immediately ft fox
ran out id n 1 him nd into tho thicket
again.
“ Tlie v *,< started to pursue it.
Me i 11 ‘.on> distiii' *, when suddenly lie
omt r/cetl into a :q> o- • win re two lovely
ladies, Heated on fh* 1 ground, were en
gaged in playing a game of checkers.
'The bumpkin stood still and gazed with
all Id; dd at the wonderful vision of
beauty before him. The players appeared
to ho unaware of the presence of au in
truder. The woo*!-cutter still stood look
hug on, and soon became, interested in
T > game ;•; well as the fair players.
Alter **me niiuuti’S, as lie supposed, he
be Hum. J himself to return. On at-
I. q.lui;'; to move away, liis limbs felt
v \ .i i;V. and In > . handle fell to pieces.
Htoopin . :*>wii to pick up the wonn-eaten
fra meiils, lie ws amussed to find, instead
.flo - iiav/ u lav <>f the morning, a long
whiteboard cov* ring his bosom ; while,
on i’ ling Li.. li< 1 1, lie discovered on it
ala ; a *.!' silk' 11, white hair. The
wi’inl;!' <i old rnan, now dazed with won
der, hobbled down the mountain to his
native village.
“lie found the streets the same, but
the bourns were filled with new faces;
crowds of children gathered round him,
tossing and laughing at him; the dogs
i 1.1 i at t! : •. h : i *;• r, and the parents
of 1 '■ derail shook their heads and
womb red amouy tin liiselvcs as to
wheiio ■ tla ji).|):intion had come. The
0.1 l m .1, ii! t,l)' ugpuy of despair, asked
I'cr iii. wild and relatives. The inoreilu
]i 1 people 1 .. ! him down as a fool,
know;! , nothing of whom he asked, and
It. .'Hi In la Ik as tin* drivel of luufttic
idiity. !’t •ml Ivy an old grandum hob
bled iqi nl u’d l ! wa.*. a deseendent of
lii 1 \en!!i i nmu of a man named
; ; , ii 'l it old man groaned aloud,
and. ten his hack, r<‘traeed liis
o, to th" mountain again. He
w in v*-r h* .nd of more, and it is be
lt .1 It lAi! : M into tho company of
tie immortal Iu rmits and spirits of the
mountain.”
I>. AT. Baiinimm, a traveler, says :
“I in:;.' add that during my recent
i ibl* • ni Japan, not only did I hear
th * t.de, as told by Mr. Griffis, con
fm; by tl* nativ*‘s, but I was also
N tsi:!;i' *n* ivory representation
.y Tot ■. - v*;*v old man with long hair
and In *nl, leaning on an ax.”
•
Tim • \.:> Trine* *>l Germany, who
and o i*e ;•< s! in tlie village schools
~ n- hi at' M Potsdam, visited the
ifiMioo! ; 'r-fcdt the other day to see
j j>*l master. Ho had
.:i /<iint-i- and the room when a mes
-1 /*;. *• mi . with ii tehigram summon
■) . (!, uiasp i* to come to his mother
.ylx, *iyine. m a neighboring village.
’*'| ;i . Ci-own Pi in**; insisted that the mas
p . shoi/id m i;' fly 'lepart. “But tlie
; 1 iii eliool how can I leave
P u v” eri and lii*' agonized and perplexed
1 f ! never mind such things,”
Prince: “T will teach tin*
n,„.*l n Mi! the vicar comes to prepare
i.d • ! s’ c<tntinnjition. Go ! run !
1 a- *■ >!i find Id r yet alive!” So for
i. ;11 hour the heir t** the Tm
j;,| H*i. *-xa.milu*d and instructed
child'-' 11, until tlie vicar came,, to
.-* c m-m he then entrusted the gchooL
t ; - 1 Ml Hie pri'iiftvationß for
\l , v'.lilinp' wore linulu, ftt
1 < . I’lioK ii choiooof
ii, i,i 81). • j,i< 10t.'.1 Mr. 1101.
. w l. ! l)' r fu tl nr iimixted on Mr.
fii, .• ~ii. I ’ii r. •) 1 1 oi untliority Hcrrm.d
11.. i. ... lir inuiiilitiiioil, aud Mr. Mc
| -Ii:-. on •. :n I old to Iu on liuiiii. Ac
. lii, li< iwiH tlii-iv, lint Holman won
tfi. Urn front door wa
t liim, ho got in hy tlio
i: ; , ' :t-l i I •.■)). 1 ’I liis oust) bo ear
!, ii. ill'. Hoi her promiaed
~1, ,| if 1 'I that nlio would
11.. 1,. i.ohody. So the guests,
; ,- 1 ■ 'im in suspunso till the last
in y Haw her become Mrs.
11, hum’:. _
Tin ' "iily been married a short
. , 11. • r liny she slung her arm
~1 warbled, in a low,
“Do you realize,
it now wo are married,
: 1 ' iy oie f” “No,” replied
the lii'ii' “ I can’t realize it. I
h v • jn t pas! a 375 millinery bill, and a
lot ' ... yen' hills, with several out
i.l" pr. eii to hear from, so J am lio
oin 1 to 1 el'/e 11 11 tt, as fur as exiienso
f/oes in-i' 1 of b ino one, we atv about
h -i I e.i’i't take in that idea
1, ..in 1 one just yt, not by a large
ini'j n't Tcxim iSifUiij/a.
WIT AND WISDOM.
Fannik: You aio right. It is bettor to
return a kiss for a blow. And a great
deal sweeter.— Christian at Work.
A man in Syracuse boasts that ho has
had 302 colds in the head in ono year.
He’d hotter rent liis head for an ioc-box
Quoth X., “A court of common picas
Is what t call my store ;
Ami the picas you hear the most aro these:
'Good friends, please shut the door.' ”
A man in Tompkins Comity, N. Y.,
thought 110 had discovered the secret of
preserving eggs, but after 120,000 had
spoiled on liis hands ho concluded that ho
hadn’t.
Ip yott meet a lion just right he will
drop liis tail and tlee, but there ore so
many chances that he will drop you in
stead that tile meeting hod better be post
poned as long as possible.
Houses sometimes appear to be almost
human. One in St. Louis cliews tobac
co. Tlie habit does not show a superior
intelligence, but it illustrates what a
horse can do when associated with men.
What is the difference between econ
omy and meanness? Well, if a man
squeezes to save a little money, he calls
it economy; his neighbors call it mean
ness. It depends on who does the call
ing.
Anew book is called “ How to Keep a
Store.” It is a work of several hundred
pages, and life is too short to read it.
The he”! way to keep a store is to adver
tise judiciously, and thus prevent it fall
ing into the hands of the sheriff.—Nor
ristown Herald.
Vennor’s almanac for 1883 lies before
us. Don’t misunderstand us. We don’t
meau to say—well, what we do menu is
that we have received a copy, and that it
contains sixty pages of statements re
garding the extent, quality and durabil
ity of next year’s weather.—7l. can tiij't
in(/n.
I r.r.TNors is worrying over the question,
“Who shall stop into David Davi,
shoes?” The next Senator may step
into David’s shoes, blit hy the great.
American desert, he’d better keep out of
the old man’s trousers, if lie wants to bo
found in time to dray any pay.—Jlawk
ryc.
A littZiE fellow 1 icing told by a young
man to get. off’ liis knee —ho was too
heavy to hold in that way, made quite a
sensation among tin- persons present by
yelling back: “ Too heavy, hoy ? Sisfi r
Sal weighs a hundred pounds more than
I, and you held her on your knee for
four hours last night.”
Among some old papers sent to tha
Austin jail, says Siftings, was the elec
tion circular of one of the local candi
dates. One of the prisoners, who has
been in the jail for the last year, looked
at it, and said: “Look here, boys, this
is not intended for us. It is addressed
‘To the people at large.’ That don’t
mean ns.”
One Kentucky stage robber success
fully plundered the driver and three
passengers, rifled the mail, took a wheel
off the coach, and calmly wont his way.
Had there been two or three more pass
engers and a guard, lie would have sent
his hoy to do the job, while ho jvent
down to Texas to do some man’s work.
A Kansas man, upon being aroused
from his lied at 6 a. in. to split some
kindlings, indulged in heathen language,
and wished something would come along
and convert everything combustible into
kindling wood. Next day a cyclone
came howling along and knocked his
house into kindlings, aud yet he was not
satisfied. It is imposible to pleaso some
men.— Norristown Herald.
Overworked Americans: A travel
stained tramp was sitting mider the pro
tecting tegis of a stone-wall with a news
paper in his hand. “Yes," he remarked,
sadly, “Herbert is right; overwork is
what's raising the deuce with us Ameri
cans. But as long as I live it shall bo
my endeavor to stand as a living rebuke
to the spirit of unrest which animates so
many of our people, and which is hiding
so many of our young and promising
men in early graves.”— Boston Tran
script.
Some Boston Women.
A well-dressed, fine-looking woman
came into a Boston mantau-maker's ono
day, and, notwithstanding that other
people were within hearing distance,
borrowed 825. “I’ll tell you how to fix
it," she said; “tuck $lO somehow on to
tho bill for that last dress, distribute
another $lO npon tho trimmings of im
one you're making now, and the other - >
can be put on to some things I must
have for tho children. Make the whole,
bill look plausible, and keep it over a
month longer. I’ll make good the obli
gation at another time ; bnt I must liavo
the money, and my husband don’t allow
me enough any other way.”
lii a fruit shop another day the wife of
the proprietor came in with a friend and
asked her husband to hand the friend ten
cents, with which she liad supplied her
to get a spool of thread wliilo out. He
did so, and the wife walked off, evidently
too well used to her penniless condition
to see anything odd about it. Another
day a woman of far lower social pre
tentions than the one first mentioned
came into a milliner’s store in a town in
Maine, and, selecting a handsome feather,
asked the price. “ Seven dollars,” said
the shopwoman, “ Will you put it by for
me for five weeks ?” asked the purchaser.
“ I have but two dollars to pay on it now,
but I like nice tilings, and you’ll be sure
to get the money, for my husband allows
me a dollar a week!” she exclaimed,
looking about with pride. The shop
keeper complied, and she left, smiling.
“Glory Vie to God 1” exclaimed an Irish
woman present, as tlie door closed upon
her. “I’ve lived with tlie man that owns
me these thirty years, and lie’s handed
me his wages every Saturday night, and
never axed me afterward what did I
do with it, ’ceptin’, now and agin to ax
me for a quarter for a glass or a smoke!
Sigus-by! I've never wasted his sub
stance; and the same lie’s found out be
fore this.''— Boston Transcript.
The smaller tho husband, the bigger
the bundles his wife makes him carry.